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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be good to hear from her as well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Clarken and Mr. Murtagh of Oxfam and Professor Killian for their contributions. I am very glad the committee is examining this. As Mr. Clarken said, it is a discussion whose time has come. I would say it is overdue but it has never been more appropriate that it should happen. I overwhelmingly agree with what Oxfam said. What it is proposing in its wealth tax proposal is, if...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Billion or million?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we get to hear a response from-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cross-Border Co-operation (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to particularly welcome the South African delegation to remind the Taoiseach of a very particular relationship that exists between this country, South Africa and Palestine. We had the first version of apartheid with the penal laws. These were systematic discrimination which contributed very substantially to the Famine in this country. The people of South Africa struggled...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national reform programme for the European semester recently published by his Department. [26164/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The NRP acknowledges the problems with assessments of need but has less to say, when one has obtained an assessment, about the resources that are made available. I will give the Taoiseach an example. The case involving Theo, who is 13, and his parents, is quite urgent. Theo has severe autism and intellectual disability. He is in residential care but he has not been in a school...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Neither do the Americans.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not suggesting that Israel is planning to withdraw.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet again, it is noticeable that despite the sort of laudable concerns the Taoiseach had about human rights at the Council of Europe, there was no mention of Palestine. Yesterday I met with the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel. I met its representatives again at the Joint Committee...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the Council of Europe. [24732/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate whether a person (details supplied) has applied for home tuition for a person, as advised by her Department; if an EWO can engage with the family urgently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 863. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for asylum which was made in 2021 is being processed for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 864. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if asylum seekers can engage in third level programmes or apprenticeships if they have a permit to work but are waiting for their asylum application to be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27320/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 925. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be granted their IRP renewal as soon as possible as they have experienced a very lengthy wait and have since been let go from their current employment and cannot access and welfare claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28261/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is reluctant to accept the UN recommendation for countries to leave untouched all peat soils of 10 cm depth rather than afforesting and reafforesting sites with peat depths of 30 cm, 40 cm and even 50 cm deep peat, as alluded to in Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 26 April 2023; if he can at least assure this Deputy that he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will use the opportunity of Budget 2024 to abolish all registration and tuition fees for undergraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26744/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends in Budget 2024 to ensure that all PhD researchers receive a stipend of at least the living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26743/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes he intends to make to student fees in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26746/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Budget 2024 will include measures to ensure that student accommodation is affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26747/23]